COVID-19
China relaxes some Covid test rules for US, other travellers
From Friday, travellers from the United States will no longer need an RT-PCR test seven days before flying, according to notices from the Chinese embassy and consulates in the United States. Requirements for antibody tests have also been scrapped.
'Food grains shouldn't go the way of Covid vaccines'
"A number of low income societies are today confronted with the twin challenges of rising costs and difficulty in access to food grains. Even those like India, who have adequate stocks, have seen an unjustified increase in food prices. It is clear that hoarding and speculation is at work. We cannot allow this to pass unchallenged," minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan said on Wednesday.
India calls out the West, says food grains shouldn't go the way of Covid vaccines
"A number of low income societies are today confronted with the twin challenges of rising costs and difficulty in access to food grains. Even those like India, who have adequate stocks, have seen an unjustified increase in food prices. It is clear that hoarding and speculation is at work. We cannot allow this to pass unchallenged," minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan said on Wednesday.
Live: Vaccination centres seek travel proof for boosters
China has removed some Covid-19 test requirements for people flying in countries such as the United States and shortened the pre-departure quarantine for some inbound travellers, as it fine-tunes its measures to cope with the Omicron variant. Stay with TOI for latest updates on Covid from India and across the world:
North Korea's suspected COVID-19 caseload nears 2-million mark
News/World: North Korea on Thursday reported 262,270 more cases of people with suspected symptoms of COVID-19 as its pandemic caseload neared two million — a week after the country acknowledged the outbreak and scrambled to slow the rate of infections despite a lack of health-care resources.
North Korea's suspected COVID-19 caseload nears 2-million mark
News/World: North Korea on Thursday reported 262,270 more cases of people with suspected symptoms of COVID-19 as its pandemic caseload neared two million — a week after the country acknowledged the outbreak and scrambled to slow infections in its unvaccinated population
Confusion over rules for Covid booster shot for foreign travel
Rules about the administration of booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine before nine months to those travelling abroad are mired in confusion. Primarily, the Centre has said that those taking the precautionary dose needn’t produce any travel documents.
